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Admission procedure for italian and foreign students

CALL 2017

The Mathematics department offers 9 doctoral fellowships for three years. It also offers 3 positions without financial support.

The selection of candidates for the Ph.D. program is done by public competition. A Laurea Specialistica/Magistrale, i.e., a Master degree, is needed to participate to the selection process. Students who will graduate by October 31, 2017 will also be admitted to the selection process. Holders of degrees obtained abroad and comparable to a Laurea Specialistica/Magistrale will also be considered.

Students interested in applying must perform the following three steps.

Step 1

For your convenience, this is a to-do list, following the instructions in the announcement.

According to Article 3 of the call for application, you have toRegister with the University information system;Pay the application fee within July 31, 2017
as described here.

If you hold a foreign academic degree, you will also have to send by ordinary mail additional documents (you can also have these documents hand delivered).
The procedure is different for candidates holding an EU academic degree and those holding an extra-EU academic degree.
Candidates holding an EU academic degree can simply send or have hand-delivered a self-declaration stating that they hold the necessary degree; in case they do win a fellowship, they will have to produce an original certificate, according to the rules given right below.
Candidates holding an extra-EU academic degree must send by ordinary mail (or have it hand delivered) a degree certificate with exams and grades as well as a declaration of equivalence for academic degrees to:

The envelope must bear, in addition to the address above indicated, the wording:
"DOCUMENTAZIONE PER IL CONCORSO DI DOTTORATO - CODICE 12506"
The code number (codice) is listed beside the Ph.D. course title.
Please refer to Article 4 of the call for application/bando for further details.

If you are a foreign candidate applying for admission without a fellowship, also follow instructions as in Article 5 of the call for application/bando.

Step 2

Download, fill in and save the cv+statement.pdf file:cv+statement-it.pdf italian versioncv+statement-en.pdf english version
this is a writable pdf file that you can fill in using most of the common pdf readers; any of the following open source programs will do the job: PDFcreator, Foxit, doPDF, CutePDF, etc. (please note that Acrobat Reader might fail to correctly save the modified pdf files).

Step 3

Follow this link and complete the application online by Monday July 31.
You will be asked to upload the cv+statement file you have filled in and to provide names and email addresses of at most two professors willing to support your application. We will contact your references; please make sure to inform them, as soon as possible, that we will need to receive their letters within Wednesday August 23.

Shortlist

On the basis of the documentation received, the selection committee will prepare a shortlist, which will be published on this web site by September 7. Candidates in the shortlist will be invited to two consecutive interviews, to be held on the same day, beginning on September 11 at 9 am (Lecture room Consiglio, Dipartimento di Matematica). The day and the time of the two interviews of each candidate will appear in the shortlist announcement. See below for more information about the interviews. If candidates wish to have their interviews performed remotely (e.g., via Skype or Google Hangout or Apple FaceTime) they should motivate their request by emaling the Director of the Ph.D. program (PhDadmission@mat.uniroma1.it).
Please note that there will be no written exam.

Interview

Each candidate will be interviewed twice. The two interviews will be held one after the other, in the same day. In the first interview the candidate will be questioned on his/her scientific interests (past and future); in the second interview the candidate will be questioned on background topics centered around his/her scientific interests. Each interview will last 20-25 minutes approximately.